Stop guessing.
Start building.
The cost of guessing
42%
of startups fail because there was no market need — the #1 cause, by a wide margin.
CB Insights · startup post-mortems
Most startups die building something nobody wanted. The signal was there in the market — nobody checked first.
70%
scaled prematurely — building & spending before demand was proven.
Startup Genome · 3,200+ startups
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Pay to go deeper
Each tier earns the next.
Start with a SCAN. Escalate only on ideas that earn it — upgrade anytime, pay only the difference.
Scan$19
First-pass screen
"Is this even worth a deeper look?"
Verdict + 6-dim score, competition, evidence, a 48-hour test.
Map$49
Deep validation
"Where exactly does this win?"
ICP, wedge, market sizing, economics + a 90-day plan.
Build$89
Execution readiness
"What do we ship, and how?"
MVP scope, RICE, flows, architecture + a 30-day sprint.
Launch$139
Go-to-market readiness
"How do we take it to market?"
Offer, channels, a 30-day calendar + an asset library.
Questions
The honest FAQ.
Solo founders, indie hackers, and aspiring founders pressure-testing an idea before they sink in nights, weekends, or savings — plus studios and scouts that want a consistent first screen across a pipeline.
A chat reply is a confident guess in a text box. whatifnowai runs a structured, multi-step analysis, scores it on fixed dimensions, cites tiered evidence, and hands you a designed report you can act on — the difference between an opinion and a due-diligence file.
A few minutes. You describe the idea; the engine returns the first-pass screen — verdict, score, competition, and a 48-hour test you can run yourself.
Then you just saved months. A clear "Avoid" or "Pivot" with the reasons is the most valuable output the engine can give you — and you never paid to go deeper.
Your ideas are yours. We use them only to generate your reports. (Full policy at launch.)